Posted on 06/04/2015 3:38:51 PM PDT by Drew68
Nobody seems to be taking Rick Perry very seriously in 2016 because he proved to be such a poor candidate during the 2012 Republican primary debates. Those inclined to write him off may well be right. But he does have at least one big thing going for him — far and away the best and most coherent story of any candidate in the field about why his record in office should make you think he could deliver the kind of prosperity the voters crave.
When liberals want to make conservative governance look bad, they'll point to Mississippi or, these days, maybe Kansas. When conservatives want to make liberal governance look bad, they'll point to Detroit. Liberals would prefer to highlight someplace more like Massachusetts — a state where, yes, taxes are high but in exchange the public services are genuinely good and the citizens are, on the whole, quite prosperous. Texas — especially during the Rick Perry years — is the conservative version of that, a place where conservative policy ideas really have led to the kind of rapid economic growth Republicans like to brag about.
The only one who even comes close is Jeb Bush, and his state's economy collapsed immediately after he left office, under the weight of the housing bubble that inflated his figures.
Perry's 14 years in office, by contrast, included stints before, during, and after the Great Recession. His job creation record is the record of a big state weathering a national — indeed, global — economic calamity and doing a pretty good job of it. The Republican field is crowded, but Perry has the opportunity to stand out with a fairly unusual story of success.
I was working for ThinkProgress at the time Perry kicked off his campaign...
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His smart glasses make him look like Moe Greene...
Say what you will about whether he was once a Democrat...but I’m unaware of any general election he has lost once he was the party’s nominee.
Yep, as I noted above, Texas is an ultra safe, one-party Republican state. No Republican loses a statewide office once they're the Republican nominee. George P. Bush won easily for land commissioner too, and will win any other statewide office he's nominated for, as long as he has an "R" next to his name. yawn...
La Raza Rick: Sleazy RINO weasel.
Same thing was said about McCain right up to 2008.
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